Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.

I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

I now realize that lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren’t built the right way in the first place.

When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.

When you are starting your life over, with a new sense of self, who you once were is going to challenge you. Who you once were is going to dangle old carrots, old wounds and issues, in front of your face. When that happens, you will be tempted to revert to old feelings, old patterns of thought, and old patterns of behavior.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will demand or expect more than you are able or willing to give. This is the precise moment they will choose to call in the loan.

Until and unless you know that you are enough just the way you are, you will always be driven to look for more. Knowing that you are enough is a function of consciousness. Your enough-ness develops in direct proportion to the relationship you have with your true identity. Until you wholeheartedly believe in your own worth, in spite your of accomplishments and possessions, there will be a void in your Spirit. I had more than a void. I had a gaping hole that no amount of achievement, money, or acknowledgment could fill. I’m not good enough, and I will never be good enough to deserve this kind of attention.

I’ve learned we all get exactly what we need, when we need it, in order to learn what God intends for us to know so we can be who God intends for us to be.

When your life is going downhill, it doesn’t get better just because you want it to. Nor can you will it to be better. Your life will only get better when you get better.

Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself.

Very often we claim to know something. We get an idea about what to do or not do, yet, for some reason our behavior doesn’t change. At times, we just can’t seem to do what we know. This is known as mental healing. Something has shifted in your thinking, but it has not reach the other levels of your being—the heart and the spirit.

You simply cannot pay the debts that come along with believing you are unworthy.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou

Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.

Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren’t built the right way in the first place.

When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.

I now understand that our life experiences come forth from our souls and that nothing really happens to us; it all happens for our benefit.

When doubt is present in your consciousness it indicates a much more profound problem. The real problem is the personal lie. Everyone has one: It is a story that we tell ourselves about who we are and what we do and do not deserve in life. Your personal lie is a function of all of the broken pieces of your puzzle—all of the elements of your history, all of your experiences, all that you have been taught about yourself merging with all that you have made up about yourself. Your personal lie circulates throughout your entire being and determines how you move, or if you can move at all. It is a function of what is stored on your internal landscape, your perceptions and misconceptions about life and how you fit into the scheme of things.

I recognized that a broken life is a test of faith of the highest order.

Prayer and meditation would heal the soul of almost any affliction. The only things that could not be cured by a daily spiritual practice was failure to have a daily spiritual practice.

Even in your most difficult times, God will still find a way to send you a blessing.

A break down is an opportunity to break through.

If you cannot embody what you know, maybe you don’t really know it.

When people lie to you, only to swear they never said what you know they did say, there’s no way to get along with people like that.